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Updated: April 30, 2025
Her face was even more beautiful than formerly, for great joy and peace irradiated every feature. "Where's Honoré?" he said abruptly, looking about for his boy who was generally the first to run as far as the bridge to greet him. His wife answered. "He and Billy went with Father Honoré as far as the power-house; he'll be back soon with Billy. Sister Ste.
It seemed to be well lighted inside, and Dick remembered having heard orders for electric wires to be connected with the power-house at the dam. Fuller obviously meant to give his daughter all the civilized comfort possible, and Dick was glad he had been able to find a clean duck suit, though he was not sure he had succeeded in removing all the oily grime from his face.
Every manufacturer should embody in the directions for caring for the machine information concerning all the standard oils that can be found in most cities, and recommend the use of as many different brands as possible. Machine oil can be found in almost any country village, or at any mill, factory, or power-house along the road; it is the cylinder oil that requires fore-thought and attention.
With a power-house at the mouth of Squaw creek, a transmission wire across the river and a pump-house down below, he could wash the whole sand-bar into the river and all the sand-bars up and down as far as the current would carry! In his excitement he had tried to outline the plan to Toy, who had more that intimated that he was mad. The Chinaman had said bluntly: "No can do."
"Who said so?" flashed Miss Chisholm, reddening. "Why, I saw Len to-night, sort of lurking round the power-house, and he told me he had 'em in that little cottage, across the creek, where the lumbermen used to live. Said Mollie was in agony because nobody came near her." "Oh, that makes me furious!" said Patricia, passionately. "I'll see about it to-morrow. Nobody went near her?
But beyond the power-house, the ledges fell away very gradually to the lowest slopes where stood, one among many in the quarries, the new monster steel derrick which the men had erected last week. They had been testing it for several days; even now its powerful arm held suspended a block of many tons' weight.
"And I've tried so hard." "You've sure worked like a horse." There was a look that was half pity, half grudging admiration on Smaltz's impudent face. Banule was to run the power-house for the day and complete some work inside, so when Bruce had finished with the mercury he told Smaltz to telephone Banule from the pump-house that they were ready to start.
While the others continued their inspection of the damage, he drifted farther and farther away, intent on the ground about him, and the edge of the stream. Suddenly he stooped over and picked up something water-stained and white. He came back toward them. "Whoever did the one job," he said tersely, "did both. Probably one man. Set the fuses at the power-house, then came on here and set these.
Yet they toiled none the less faithfully for these dispiriting conversations, doing the work of horses, often to the point of exhaustion. When the trestle was well along Bruce commenced sawing lumber for the half mile of flume which was to bring the water from the head-gate across the trestle to the pressure-box above the power-house.
By now, it was growing darker. The sun had set. The hands of a clock on the power-house of a cable line pointed to seven. No doubt, Minna had come long before this time, had found her mother gone, and had just what had she done, just what COULD she do? Where was her daughter now? Walking the streets herself, no doubt.
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